Director of Strategic Finance, Lion Holdings

Numbers tell a story. The right leader knows how to turn that story into opportunity.

At Lion Holdings, we're looking for a Director of Strategic Finance who sees beyond financial statements and identifies opportunities others may overlook. We need a commercially minded strategist who understands how businesses generate revenue, what drives profitability, and where the next opportunity for growth may exist.

This is not simply a budgeting, forecasting, or reporting role. It's an opportunity to directly influence the financial direction of a growing organization with multiple operating businesses.

• Revenue Growth & Optimization: Identify, evaluate, and recommend opportunities to create new revenue streams, increase monetization, expand margins, and maximize the financial potential of existing business operations.
• Financial & Operational Performance: Investigate the relationships between financial results and operational performance. Analyze revenue drivers, cost structures, customer economics, productivity, and profitability to identify opportunities for measurable improvement.
• Mergers & Acquisitions: Support the identification, financial evaluation, due diligence, and execution of potential acquisitions, strategic investments, and partnerships. Develop valuation models, assess synergies, quantify risks, and evaluate opportunities for long-term value creation.
• Strategic Financial Analysis: Conduct detailed financial investigations across business units, challenge underlying assumptions, uncover performance gaps, and translate findings into actionable recommendations that accelerate revenue and profitability.
• Business Model Evaluation: Assess existing and emerging business models, revenue structures, pricing strategies, and growth initiatives. Develop financial scenarios and business cases that inform investment decisions and commercial strategy.
• Financial Modeling and Forecasting: Build sophisticated financial models, forecasts, and scenario analyses that evaluate growth initiatives, capital allocation, investments, and potential acquisitions. Quantify expected returns and financial exposure.
• Executive Partnership and Influence: Serve as a trusted financial advisor to executive leadership. Present compelling, evidence-based recommendations, challenge assumptions constructively, and influence decisions through financial intelligence and sound business judgment.
• Opportunity Assessment and Execution: Partner with business leaders to investigate under performed areas, evaluate new opportunities, develop improvement recommendations, and measure the financial impact of implemented initiatives.
• Financial Planning and Performance Management: Lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis while ensuring financial resources and investments support the organization's growth priorities.
• Investment and Risk Analysis: Evaluate the financial viability of strategic initiatives, capital investments, and expansion opportunities. Balance growth potential against financial risk, liquidity, and expected returns.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with leaders across finance, sales, marketing, technology, media, and operations to understand business economics and identify opportunities that improve revenue generation and enterprise value.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field required. MBA, CFA, or other advanced credentials preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, strategic finance, investment analysis, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience identifying and developing new revenue opportunities, optimizing existing revenue streams, and improving business profitability.
• Direct experience with mergers and acquisitions, including financial due diligence, valuation, transaction analysis, and acquisition modeling.
• Proven ability to connect financial metrics with operational performance indicators and translate complex data into practical business recommendations.
• Advanced financial modeling capabilities, including discounted cash flow analysis, scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, investment returns, and valuation methodologies.
• Strong understanding of revenue economics, pricing strategies, contribution margins, EBITDA, cash flow, capital allocation, and return on investment.
• Exceptional analytical and investigative skills with the intellectual curiosity to ask difficult…